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Sadeq Chubak

صادق چوبک
🇮🇷 Iran
5 July 1916 – 3 July 1998 (81 years old)

Pioneering naturalist writer from Bushehr whose visceral novels 'Tangsir' and 'The Patient Stone' brought raw realism to Persian prose.

Berkeley, California, United States
Nizar Qabbani
Literature & Poetry
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Nizar Qabbani

نزار قباني
🇸🇾 Syria
1923 – 1998 (75 years old)

Syrian diplomat and poet hailed as the most celebrated contemporary Arab poet, renowned for his sensual romantic lyricism and searing political elegies following the 1967 Six-Day War.

Damascus, Syria
Octavio Paz Lozano
Literature & Poetry
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Octavio Paz Lozano

Octavio Paz
🇲🇽 Mexico
31 March 1914 – 19 April 1998 (84 years old)

Preeminent Mexican poet, essayist, and 1990 Nobel laureate whose landmark sociological essay The Labyrinth of Solitude (El laberinto de la soledad) and circular calendar poem Sunstone (Piedra de Sol) unlocked the soul of Mexican identity.

Mexico City, Mexico
Literature & Poetry
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W. O. Mitchell

William Ormond Mitchell
🇨🇦 Canada
1914 – 1998 (83 years old)

Beloved prairie storyteller whose 1947 classic novel Who Has Seen the Wind captured childhood wonder and the vast, living landscape of the Saskatchewan prairie.

Calgary (Alberta), Canada
Halldór Laxness
Literature & Poetry
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Halldór Laxness

Halldór Kiljan Laxness
🇮🇸 Iceland
1902-04-23 – 1998-02-08 (95 years old)

Iceland's sole Nobel laureate, awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature for his vivid epic power which renewed the great narrative art of Iceland in Independent People and Iceland's Bell.

Mosfellsdalur, Iceland
Amos Tutuola
Literature & Poetry
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Amos Tutuola

Amos Tutuola
🇳🇬 Nigeria
1920 – 1997 (76 years old)

Nigerian writer whose bizarre, intoxicating 1952 mythological novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard became the first African novel in English to achieve worldwide international fame.

Abeokuta (Ogun State), Nigeria
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Dulce María Loynaz

Dulce María Loynaz Muñoz
🇨🇺 Cuba
1902-12-10 – 1997-04-27 (94 years old)

Exquisite lyric poet and author of the lyrical novel 'Jardín' who was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1992, renowned for hermetic intimacy, metaphysical grace, and unwavering aristocratic dignity.

Havana, Cuba
Literature & Poetry
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Etienne Goyémidé

Étienne Goyémidé
🇨🇫 Central African Republic
1942-01-22 – 1997-03-17 (55 years old)

Foremost Central African novelist and playwright whose masterpiece 'Le Silence de la forêt' (adapted into an acclaimed feature film) poignantly explored the cultural genocide of the Babinga Pygmies.

Ippy, Ouaka, Central African Republic
Bohumil Hrabal
Literature & Poetry
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Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil František Kilián
🇨🇿 Austria-Hungary
1914-03-28 – 1997-02-03 (82 years old)

One of the greatest 20th-century European prose masters whose tragicomic masterpieces 'Closely Watched Trains' and 'I Served the King of England' celebrated the stream of ordinary human banter ('pábení').

Hradištko, Nymburk District, Czech Republic
Gaston Miron
Literature & Poetry
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Gaston Miron

Gaston Miron
🇨🇦 Canada
1928 – 1996 (68 years old)

Revered national poet of Quebec and co-founder of Éditions de l'Hexagone, whose seminal 1970 poetry collection L'homme rapaillé became the poetic manifesto of Quebec identity.

Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Canada
Abdelhamid Benhedouga
Literature & Poetry
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Abdelhamid Benhedouga

عبد الحميد بن هدوقة
🇩🇿 Algeria
1925 – 1996 (71 years old)

Foundational novelist hailed as the father of modern Arabic fiction in Algeria, whose 1971 masterpiece Rih al-Janub (Wind from the South) was adapted into Algeria's first Arabic feature film.

Algiers, Algeria
Abdelhamid Benhadouga
Literature & Poetry
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Abdelhamid Benhadouga

عبد الحميد بن هدوقة
🇩🇿 Algeria
1925 – 1996 (71 years old)

Pioneering Algerian author and dramatist who wrote 'Rih al-Janub' (The South Wind) in 1971, officially recognized as the foundational cornerstone of the modern Algerian novel in the Arabic language.

Algiers, Algeria
Latifa al-Zayyat
Literature & Poetry
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Latifa al-Zayyat

لطيفة الزيات
🇪🇬 Egypt
August 8, 1923 – September 11, 1996 (73 years old)

Groundbreaking Egyptian novelist, literary critic, and political activist whose seminal 1960 novel 'The Open Door' (Al-Bab al-Maftouh) inaugurated modern Arab feminist literature, awarded the inaugural Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.

Cairo, Egypt
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